Today (February 27th 2025) is International Polar Bear Day! I hope that we will be able to celebrate next year as well. And many years to come. But the poor polar bears might not last that long.
I did not want to go see a polar bear in person. (They are awesome but they are also scary.) So I read a book to celebrate instead.
A Blizzard of Polar Bears by Alice Henderson
Alex Carter has been offered a chance to study polar bears in the Canadian Arctic. Of course, she has to go. She loves the research and the potential to help polar bears survive. But she quickly realizes that not everyone feels the same. Someone is out to sabotage her research. And then things get worse. Will she be able to finish her study? Will she even survive?
I really liked the way this book started out. I was learning about polar bears and about what researchers did when they went out to study polar bears. And there was the promise of a mystery. I liked the descriptions of the location. Then things started to happen and things got suspenseful. And then things never stopped happening. It was one thing on top of another and it went a little too far for me. There were so many things happening to this one person in this one place and I felt like I needed a break to let one story develop before another took over, a moment when the life and death struggle stops so I can take a breath. Then the action stops and there is a wrap up at the end that was all talking about what had already happened. Being told about action we didn't see was a bit of a let down. It went from nonstop action to no action within a page. If you like animals A Blizzard of Polar Bears is fun to read. It was not my favorite mystery novel I have ever read but I like the inclusion of wildlife and the mystery was good, so it grabbed my interest enough that I will read another in the series.
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